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Griffin, Thomas D.; Guerrero, Tricia Ann; Mielicki, Marta Krystyna; Wiley, Jennifer – Grantee Submission, 2020
Students in a gateway college science course were assigned to two instructional conditions: explanation-only or augmented instruction. In the explanation-only condition, students wrote explanations for six excerpts from their textbook. The augmented-instruction condition wrote explanations on only four of the excerpts, with the other two serving…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Comprehension, At Risk Students, College Freshmen
Johnson, William L.; Johnson, Annabel M.; Johnson, Jared W. – Online Submission, 2014
The document is from a presentation at the Texas Region VII 2014 Curriculum Conference. The study examined the effects of a three-tiered high school program designed to increase student achievement and Texas end-of-course (EOC) TAKS and STAAR chemistry scores. The student sample (n = 625) consisted 75% high school sophomores and 25% high school…
Descriptors: High School Students, Academic Achievement, Chemistry, Science Instruction